congress, which is how laws are passe passed. they didn t veto them. they were imposed and said they were unconstitutional. they did not veto them. they re in place. sam? well, i would also add that from a national security standpoint, you know, we have allies. and i think it would be irrational at this point for the leaders involved in nato to be sharing intelligence with the u.s. government, or with parts of it, when our own director of national intelligence is out there basically with his hair on fire saying what just went down was completely out of bounds, and, i mean in public, yeah. in public. i mean, this is you know, we can ignore this guy who is a long-time republican, appointed by the president, but he s doing this with a i think it s a very conscious act. and i think we have to ask why. and some people aren t obviously
it s becoming like a circular firing squad. we re looking into this, weave noticed there are some people on fox, aka conservative media, if that s what they want to be called, who also criticized trump s putin embrace this week, or at least quoted other conservatives who did that. this was the time and the place for the president to look putin squarely in the eye and said you will be punished for what you did in 2016. but he didn t. that s what made it disgusting, that s what made his performance disgusting. when newt gingrich, when mat shlap say the president fell short and made our intelligence apparatus look bad, it s time to pay attention. time to pay attention. i m joined by mara gay and sam seder, and julius krien, a conservative writer who was a trump supporter but has publicly broken with the president after charlottesville which he wrote about in the new york times. thanks to each of you, sam, you re a long-time fox watcher. what do you think of this problem, just di
impressed by that at all. but i think that s somewhat problematic. and you ve got to think about our allies. i just think they re going to be freaking out a little bit. do you want to close us out on a final depressing note of any kind? i think it s a really important time for congress to step up and to keep the pressure on donald trump. what tends to happen is that he gets a news cycle where he s gone too far, crossed a line, and then everything goes back to normal. this is not normal. right. mara gay, sam seder, and julius krein, thank you very much. coming up, backlash on the thing we just mentioned, the intelligence chief didn t want trump to meet with putin alone, regarding their one on one. and later, ethics questions about a member of congress who is very much in the public eye. be right back. with moderate to severe crohn s disease, i was there,
ambassador, mark ginsburg, who called monday s meeting a shame and sure reddrender summit. and sam seeder. ambassador, i begin with you, why is this happening? well, it s happening largely because of the duress that trump has received from some supporters, particularly newt gingrich and a couple others on fox news. that got under his skin. it s not because of the substance. he actually is convinced that what he did in helsinki was not the equivalent of a chamberlain surrender, or an appeasement, that they accomplished something. what he said saying to the american people is that mr. putin has something on him, that there s a reason why this obsequious kowtowing to putin
but let me make it very clear, ari, the fact that this white house required people like mike mcfaul and mr. browder to have to worry whether or not they would be served up on a silver platter to mr. putin by the president of the united states is despicable. i think it s well put. and it s one of the many things that the white house may be trying to run from tonight with the other moves it s making which are obviously newsworthy, the invite to the white house for putin, and yet was a remarkable piece of state craft over these last few days that it was even, as you say, put out there. ambassador ginsburg, my thanks to you. and senator, who comes on this show, but likes a lot of other shows. sam seder, thank you as well. bob mueller s key items that reveal his trial strategy.